Booth 542 at ICMA will be the meet up location. Please join us!

Together with Patti-Lynn Silva, Chief Accountant at Bloomington, IL and Greg Peters, GovTemps contract employee/CFO at the Village of River Grove, GovHR Senior VP Mike Earl will be speaking at the IGFOA Conference in Peoria, IL on Tuesday, September 18 at 11:25am at a session titled: Alternative Staffing Models. Click here for more information.

  Longtime municipal administrator and GovTemps associate Frank Koehler recently announced he is retiring from local government. This time it looks like it might be for good! Frank has served the following communities with distinction and commitment to good government:       Riverdale, IL Director of Community Development 1991-1996 Bourbonnais, IL Village Administrator 1996-2007Read More

Thursday, June 28: Compensation Studies –The What, Why and How A compensation study is an important tool to help organizations remain competitive in the current workforce environment. In this session you will learn the benefits of doing a compensation study, what goes into a study and the administrator’s role during the process. Issues covered include whatRead More

The Information Technology Review - City of Pekin, Illinois By: Jerry Schultz, Vice President, GovHR  USA In the summer of 2016 GovHR USA conducted an information technology review for the City of Pekin, Illinois (pop. 33,000). This case study presents highlights of the information technology review, which was part of a larger organizational service deliveryRead More

By Heidi Voorhees We’ve interviewed thousands of employees as a part of our recruitment and selection processes. Here is what they tell us they want in a leader, boss, manager, and supervisor: Listen, Listen, Listen. Bosses often talk more than they listen and when they do listen, they sometimes are also looking at their phone,Read More

By Heidi J. Voorhees, President, GovHRUSA Develop a chronological resume that is easy to follow. Provide a one sentence description of each position you’ve held, the name of the organization including the city and state, and then indicate your accomplishments while you held that job. If you had a wide variety of responsibilities, consider creatingRead More

By Heidi J. Voorhees, President, GovHRUSA Display sincere energy and excitement about the position. Lack of energy is the number one reason candidates do not get the job! Dress professionally for the interview. If you suspect the organization’s culture is more casual about dress, still wear a suit. Be well groomed including a professional haircut.Read More

Interview Blunders and How to Recover! By Heidi Voorhees (President/Owner Voorhees Associates and Co-Owner GovTempsUSA) I’ve had the opportunity to observe at least 1,000 interviews in my career as an executive recruiter. I find it very distressing when I see a qualified candidate not get a job due to an interview misstep. Here are someRead More